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This week on The Reading Life: Time to celebrate the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival with Thomas Keith, co-editor with Peggy L. Fox of…

This week on The Reading Life: Daniel Brook, whose new book is “The Accident of Color: A Story of Race and Reconstruction," and poet Kelly Harris, the New…

Today on Louisiana Considered, Grammy Award-winning Cajun fiddler Louis Michot brings a fresh perspective to Louisiana French music as he gears up for a solo concert. Plus, we review the year in politics, including Landry’s first year in office and the new 6th Congressional District.

The Dow Jones benchmark started Monday's session above 16,459 and fell more than 1,000 points before closing at 15,871. The index lost about 3.6 percent of its value.

Castro Coleman, also known as Mr. Sipp, was born in McComb, Mississippi. He grew up hearing his parents, grandfather, uncles, aunties, and cousins playing and singing music at home and in the church. He was also influenced by professional gospel groups, as well as the bluesman B.B. King, who inspired Mr. Sipp to pick up the guitar at age six. Sipp would go on to play B.B. King in the CMT network’s series, Sun Records. Mr. Sipp has gone on to receive many blues and gospel awards, but he has never let his music be defined by one style.

Dearly beloved, we will gather at Essence Music Festival on July 4th to get down with this man named Prince. Electric word “Prince” — it means “genius”…

The French Market may seem like one big urban flea market — with everything from tee-shirts to Mardi Gras masks, alligator heads to shot glasses. And…